2008-12-28

Acer TravelMate C100, a sleeping beauty

I own an Acer TravelMate C100 tablet PC. I recently installed Fedora 10 on it. While resuming from suspend worked under Ubuntu, it did not under Fedora 10. Following Richard Hughes' quirks, I discovered that I could resume from suspend when suspending with the vbe_post quirk.

While I should be able to add an entry to /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-acer.fdi to make this quirk permanent for HAL, that does not appear to be working. Hmm.

Update

So, the casing was wrong. My laptop claims its vendor to be ACER while the section in the HAL file was matching on "Acer". I changed it to match case insensitively, as well as adding the entry for C100 on vbe_post.

I'll mention that I didn't discover this by suddenly clueing in, but by running:

$ pm-suspend --quirk-vbe-post --store-quirks-as-fdi

And viewing the output at /etc/hal/fdi/information/99local-pm-utils-quirks.fdi.